Method and device for manipulating liquids in microfluidic systems
CA 2555060 C · Owner: Research Foundation Of The State University Of New York · Inventors: Gorfinkel, Vera; Kabotyanski, Evgeni A.
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The present invention relates to microfluidic systems having components with specially designed and fabricated areas of enhanced and/or reduced capillarity (flow guides). The methods and devices of the present invention permit the bubble-less dispensing and mixing of small volumes of different liquids for subsequent incubation and/or detection of products of various biological reactions. Thus present invention is well-suited to applications such as polymerase chain reaction and capillary electrophoresis.
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- Filed February 18, 2005 and granted December 23, 2014. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 18, 2025.
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